Hitachi and Casio drop two for KDDI au

KDDI's au network is sportin' a couple of new 3G Hitachi and Casio handsets with EV-DO data now that the W43H and W43CA have dropped in Japan. The W43H (pictured above in blue) clam from Hitachi brings a single, 2.6-inch QVGA twist and fold display for viewing Japanese OneSeg mobile digital TV, a 2 megapixel auto-focus camera, MP3 player with MicroSD expansion to host your audio or record TV, and suite of apps to take advantage of that high speed data. Casio's W43CA brings pretty much the same specs but adds an external, secondary display while trimming the OneSeg tuner and 10grams of fat to boot.

[Via Akihabara News]

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 30th 2008 3:22PM]

dear sir
i have au by kdd w43h
so this is cdma but iam now in saudi arabia in the saudia
no have cdma sistem so i want to convoret the softwear so please
send me the GSM softwear plese help me

thanks

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2006 6:32PM]

The new japanese phones are NOT QVGA phones. They are either 240x480 or 320x480. These are substantially bigger resolutions than the QVGA phones that we get outside Japan (except Nokia's 352x416 Symbian phones for some E- and N-series, which is a resolution that Nokia has since dropped and has gone back to plain 240x320 QVGA).

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2006 9:00PM]

Eugenia,

if you read the link to the press release it actually says QVGA. I've seen it elsewhere mentioned on 240x400 displays, so I think you also use the term QVGA for wide(r)screen displays with a resolution of 240xXXX.

I guess you don't use terms like WQVGA, which would probably be more appropriate though.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2006 9:37PM]

No, QVGA means one thing: Quarter VGA. And VGA is 640x480. Anything else other than 240x320 (or 320x240) is *not* QVGA. You know, it doesn't have to have a name, they can always call it what it is: 240x400 (or something). It doesn't have to a XX__VGA name. But calling it QVGA is a factual and technical error.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 25th 2006 5:20PM]

engadget frequently cuts and pastes news stories from other sites (phonescoop, akihbara, etc) so although this might be an error, it was duplicated from somewhere else.